African culture and Melville's art : the creative process in Beni to Cereno and Moby-Dick - Stuckey, Sterling (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009)
The tambourine in glory -- Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick -- The hatche t-polishers, Benito Cereno, and Amasa Delano -- Cheer and gloom : Frede rick Douglass and Herman Melville on slave music and dance -- Appendix : Chapter XVI from Captain Amasa Delano's A narrative of voyages and tr avels.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-141) and index.
Keywords: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Africa; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891.; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891.